gitstats in gentoo
July 24th, 2010
There is now a gitstats package for gentoo, maintained by Justin Lecher 
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Jacobsen v. Katzer – over?
October 3rd, 2008
This case has mostly stayed under the media radar, but it seems to be finally finishing up.
There isn’t much more to say about the kind of person who attempts something like this.
Large Hadron Collider pictures
August 2nd, 2008
Bostom.com has some awesome pictures of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The first comment on the article is unsurprisingly:
This thing is going to kill us all.
There’s also a Large Hadron Rap video @ Youtube.
Nokia ToS weirdness Part II: Sports Tracker
July 4th, 2008
Nokia Sports Tracker is a nifty service (and S60 application) that allows you to store your walking/running/cycling/etc trip data in a file, and then upload it to the service. This file will contain the GPS coordinates you were on during your trip, allowing generation of nice graphs of average speed at the different parts of the trip, a map of the trip and so on. The data can also be exported and then imported to Google Earth of Google Maps for example. You can also upload pictures you took on the trip, and you’ll be able to see what position on the map you took them at.
It all seems free (for now) and nice, but a closer look at the Terms of Service does reveal something unpleasant.
Pictures from yesterday’s cycling trip
June 1st, 2008
… are in the gallery: http://gallery.fealdia.org/v/cycling/2008/2008-05-31/
Not very interesting even to me, I admit… I prefer the real things 
Nokia Share on Ovi ToS weirdness
March 13th, 2008
I thought I’d have a look at Nokia’s Share on Ovi, but then this caught my eye in the Terms of Service:
The license you grant to Nokia is a worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute the content you provide (including any commentary or electronic files of any type), and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, your content.
Uh-huh. I don’t know if I’m reading this wrong or what, but I think I’ll steer away from Share, at least for now…
Compression program comparison
July 5th, 2007
Out of curiosity, I tested some compression programs (bzip2, gzip, lzma, rzip, zip) for speed and compression ratio, using Linux kernel source as input. The resulting data was turned into some interesting graphs with gnuplot.
Ohloh
